World Health Organization Collaborative Study on Social and Health Aspects of Aging in Fiji, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines, 1983-1985 (ICPSR 6057)

Citation

Andrews, Gary R. World Health Organization Collaborative Study on Social and Health Aspects of Aging in Fiji, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines, 1983-1985. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06057.v2

Summary

These data were gathered to provide information on the
elderly in Fiji, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Questions were
asked regarding demographic characteristics (age, race, sex, marital
status, religion, household, number of children and siblings,
education), economic resources (employment status of respondent and of
respondent's spouse, main income source, other income sources, whether
house was owned), health (current health status, accidents and/or
injuries affecting daily activities, number of times respondent saw a
health professional in the previous month, number of days in hospital,
nursing home, or rehabilitation center in the previous month,
medications currently used, usage of any devices to assist in getting
around), activities of daily living, living habits (smoking or
drinking), social activities (club membership, whether respondent had
a confidant), housing (satisfaction with current living conditions,
accessibility to quarters, safety), and mental state of the
respondent.

Citation

Andrews, Gary R. World Health Organization Collaborative Study on Social and Health Aspects of Aging in Fiji, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines, 1983-1985. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06057.v2

Data Collection Notes

Sample

Fiji: Random sampling within districts and provinces. In
households that contained more than one person over 60, all were
interviewed. Korea: Random sampling. Malaysia: Purposive sampling of
five subregions. The Philippines: Three-stage stratified cluster
sample.

Universe

Noninstitutionalized persons 60 years and older in Fiji,
Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1993-12-18

Version Date

2005-11-04

Version History

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

1998-06-25 The card image data have been replaced with logical
record length data and corresponding SAS data definition
statements. Also, the SPSS data definition statements were replaced,
and the codebook and questionnaire are now available as a PDF file.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).